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Maulana Karenga
Writer, Author
1941 –
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Who is Maulana Karenga?
Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga is an African-American professor of Africana Studies, activist and author, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African-American holiday of Kwanzaa. Karenga was a major figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s and co-founded with Hakim Jamal the black nationalism and social change organization US.
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- Born
- Jul 14, 1941
Parsonsburg, Maryland - Also known as
- Dr. Maulana Karenga
- Ronald Mckinley Everett
- Karenga Maulana.
- Spouses
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- California State University, Long Beach
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles City College
- Alliant International University
- Lived in
- Maryland
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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